In a major speech Thursday about what it means to be French, President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the burqa and the "subservience of women" had no place in secular France. France has one of Europe's largest Muslim populations.
Marc Perelman interviews Tariq Ramadan (Saint Antony’s College Oxford); Amel Boubekeur (Carnegie Middle East Center); Fouad Al Obaid (Kuwait Times); and Stefan Braendle (Frankfurter Rundschau).
Egyptian authorities have detained 20 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest and most organised opposition group, which is allowed to operate openly despite an official ban.
The relationship between Coptic Christians and the rest of Egyptian society is taking a turn for the worse. After violence perpetrated by Muslims, some Christians accuse authorities of treating them as second-class citizens.
At an iftar, or traditional fast-breaking dinner during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the White House, US President Barack Obama saluted the contributions of the American Muslim community.
After Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, he said that Obama had made it clear, during his visit to Cairo in June, that the US was not opposed to Islam.
Somalia's militant al Shabaab group on Monday raided the offices of three United Nations agencies operating in the Horn of Africa nation, after banning their activities and claiming that they were "enemies of Islam and Muslims".
A UN war crimes tribunal on Monday jailed two Serb cousins for the deaths of some 150 Muslim civilians during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. Milan Lukic was sentenced to life, while his cousin Sredoje received a 30-year term.
China has issued a security alert to its nationals in Algeria after al Qaeda reportedly vowed to avenge the deaths of Muslim Uighurs killed during recent ethnic clashes in the Xinjiang region by targeting Chinese workers in north Africa.
